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...to be so upset by DPs actions yesterday?

132 replies

MsHippo · 26/02/2018 13:58

Just wanting some perspective here. Sorry, it's turned out a bit long!

Yesterday morning DP and I had a pathetic argument whilst I was getting ready to for a run. He had left my makeup wipes open overnight (after bringing me one) so they had dried up, I had pointed it out in a slightly irritated way (I know IABU about this part!) and it escalated into a tiff. After a while of cross back-and-forths, he told me just to go for my run, so I did.

I was out for about an hour, and when I got back he wasn't there. I looked in every room several times, and noticed he hadn't taken keys, wallet, shoes, coat etc, and didn't appear to have got dressed. At this point I was really worried about him, he would never go out without those things, and I genuinely couldn't find him, so I rang/texted several times and waited for a few minutes to hear back. When I heard nothing, I grabbed his coat and headed out to look for him and give it to him if he was cold. I checked the garden, walked round the block etc but no sign of him. I was really concerned about him as this seemed very out of character and I had no idea where he might have gone with new shoes, coat, money.

I headed back home to regroup and which point he appeared. It turned out he had been sat behind the spare room door, his phone was silenced and he had sat (and not come out when it was clear I was looking for him) there because he didn't want to talk to me when I got home. I was slightly beside myself and got quite upset with him. I was upset both that he had been hiding from me, and also because I had been so worried about him when he was "missing". We've since kissed and made up, but he doesn't seem to understand why I was so upset.

So (got there in the end!), was hiding from me like that a normal this to do, and WIBU to be so upset?

OP posts:
BakedBeans47 · 26/02/2018 14:15

What a fucking child

Tyrianstoe · 26/02/2018 14:18

He sat behind a door? Hiding? YANBU.

Arealhumanbeing · 26/02/2018 14:19

Little shit. Dump him.

DPotter · 26/02/2018 14:19

How pre-meditatively spiteful.
We all say things in the heat of the moment, but to hide after an hour, silence his phone and only re-emerge when you returned, takes it to a whole new level.
And he completely understands why you were upset.
I would be very wary of him MsHippo, very wary

Blinkyblink · 26/02/2018 14:20

Weird of him
Tad OTT of you

Chifi · 26/02/2018 14:20

I ran away from home at 14. My normally loving parents didn't seem to care an iota as I was in the back garden in the dark and could see them pottering around the kitchen as normal. I returned home when it got quite cold.

He sounds like me but I presume he's a little older.

CherryMaDeary · 26/02/2018 14:20

Well, he's like the boy who cried wolf now. Next time he pulls this shit, just ignore him and go about your day. Hopefully a cup of tea in front of the telly to really piss him off.

Clandestino · 26/02/2018 14:27

I hope you have no children together. He seems to be a child himself and is best to be dumped. If he punishes you like that for such a trivial thing, what is going to do when the things get tough?

AnnieAnoniMouse · 26/02/2018 14:30

Of course it’s normal to be irritated that he left the wipes open & to voice that.

It’s NOT normal to HIDE like a 5 year old.

I’m very surprised you’ve ‘kissed & made up’. His frankly bizarre behaviour would still be pissing me off and worrying me. That’s so far from ‘normal’ for a grown adult.

DreamingOfAHotBeach · 26/02/2018 14:32

It's really weird to have hidden from you. Is he a toddler?

I get that you were annoyed about the wipes and it resulted in a tiff, but cannot get my head around the hiding part.

Has he done anything equally as childish and strange before?

Viviennemary · 26/02/2018 14:33

You were being a control freak over the wipes. I couldn't live with somebody so petty especially as he was doing you a favour. As for the hiding. That was just attention seeking.

XiCi · 26/02/2018 14:35

What a spiteful, manipulative little shit

lalaloopyhead · 26/02/2018 14:35

He hid behind a door? How long was he there for??

Very strange indeed!

Weird and childish reaction to an argument in my opinion.

Costacoffeeplease · 26/02/2018 14:36

He wanted you to think he’d gone off and possibly hurt himself? What a controlling wanker.

I guess you’ve kissed and made up out of relief? I’d have kicked his arse out for being so cruel and manipulative - he’s got what he wanted hasn’t he? All forgiven and forgotten. I’d tread very warily with this one, very soon you’ll be walking on eggshells round him in case he pulls another stroke like this.

diddl · 26/02/2018 14:41

He deliberately hid & continued to do so even when it was obvious that you were worried.

What a nasty bastard.

AcrossthePond55 · 26/02/2018 14:44

He did this on purpose to frighten you, not because he 'didn't want to talk to you'. If an adult doesn't want to speak to someone they say "I'm upset with you and I just need my space right now".

He wanted to scare you for a reason. I'd be taking a good look as his behaviour on a larger scale. He sounds manipulative to me, trying to provoke an emotional reaction AND enjoying it when he does. To control you? Or does he just have a large streak of cruelty?

StormTreader · 26/02/2018 14:44

Sounds like he decided to "teach you a lesson" by deliberately worrying you, how utterly childish.

timeforabrewnow · 26/02/2018 14:44

If it had been my DH - I wouldn't have even gone looking...

or been that bothered to check keys/coat/shoes etc. Honestly wouldn't have registered. Not sure what that says about my relationship.

Perhaps I'm not intense enough.

Or maybe you two need to simmer down a bit. You can be married for a lot of years, and that sounds like crazy shit to be going on with.

Godowneasy · 26/02/2018 14:46

I'd find it really hard to respect someone that did this to me.
What was he hoping to achieve from hiding?
It doesn't bode well for your marriage.

SouthernComforts · 26/02/2018 14:48

Is there something else going on in your relationship that's leading you both to behave like this?

Getting annoyed over face wipes, rowing, hiding, searching the streets.. it all sounds exhausting tbh.

monkeywithacowface · 26/02/2018 14:48

He sounds like a right prick tbh. I'd find it hard to respect someone so childish

3luckystars · 26/02/2018 14:53

You can just pour water into the wipes and they work again.

diddl · 26/02/2018 14:56

"If it had been my DH - I wouldn't have even gone looking..."

Same here!

I find it odd that you not only did that Op, but took his coat!

Lethaldrizzle · 26/02/2018 14:57

Yeah I'm sorry I just can't get past the wipes thing. It wouldn't have bothered me in the least. May be he responded to your huge over reaction with a huge over reaction of his own. May be next time just get your own wipes

JockTamsonsBairns · 26/02/2018 14:58

Hang on, a grown up man hides behind a door after an argument over a dried out wet-wipe? And you're chasing around the streets with a coat for him?
This is quite bizarre Confused

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